Kane Williamson

I heard you all recently declare that we are a pack of good cunts, and I'd like to offer a response.

I'd like to congratulate you gents for crushing the stereotype that Kiwis are passionless, emotionless, bereft of banter, thrifty Scotsmen, too busy being nice guys like Kane Williamson, a world of gunmetal gray.

So for a moment I'm gonna forget Crowded House, Russell Crowe, Pavlova, the Eden Park hoodoo, far lap, and the underarm incident, and declare you all-round funny cunts.

From Tony Lisle's very relatable Gollum routine, to the rolling adventures of Family Guy G.

Yeah

... th- m- mine immediate two that jump to mind are probably, like, the go-tos.

I'm thinking of Kane Williamson down the ground for six after we very nearly lost to Australia-

Yes

Still don't know about that.

New Zealand legend Kane Williamson retired after one test match.

Don't feel like that got enough [laughs] applause-

It was quiet [laughs]

Root, Trescothick have won 3-0 against Pakistan, and it's sort of taken you to remind me of all those things that have happened to go, "Bloody hell.

That was a-"

Kane Williamson, eh?

Kane William-

Now, domestic cricket isn't enough to keep them here because we have opened the door to casual contracts, like you said.

with players like Seifert and Allen and Lockie Ferguson and Devin Conway and Kane Williamson yeah all of you know on and on and on so yeah very interesting to see what happens over the next 12 months with with all of these yeah with with the NZ20 coming but can it can it stop this you know the the flood of other offers that that will come for New Zealand cricketers

Yeah,

it's very difficult to

I'm touching him.

And Jarred, Kane Williamson recently retired.

He was the last of the great number three batters in test cricket.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

Like, there, there isn't actually an answer for it, and maybe there hasn't been an answer for it since kind of Kane Williamson debuted.

Yeah.

So it's okay to feel like that.

Did you include the Kane Williamson Live at Maid- Yeah ...

in your calculations- That was- ... as a, as a podcast? That was one of them.

Yeah.

So we have been doing, uh, this live, they call it a live podcast.

So it's the third year at Maid.

So the first year was Emma Twigg, second year was Sam Kane, and then they got, uh, Kane Williamson.

So there's about 150-odd people all sort of in that food court area at Maid, and I said it's our favorite, I spoke on your behalf.

So it is asking players to sacrifice those potential opportunities.

Kane Williamson, of course, turned down the central contract famously because he was chasing SA20 gigs.

Devin Conway was another, but he's come back into the fold.

So What do you make of Mitch Santner's decision to forego what would have been pretty lucrative deals, and one was a big bash deal too, which sounds like that was a pretty hefty kind of salary for two years' work.

These are generally private ventures.

So former cricketers Kane Williamson and Stephen Fleming are involved in Pacific Pedal.

So they kind of have to deal with some different things to perhaps your local tennis club does when they're using council courts.

I really want to know why people prefer this to tennis, why they're converting.

Yeah, absolutely.

So, another one is predictable, but Kane Williamson, who has retired not so long ago.

Unfortunately, I never had a chance to watch him live.

But he's just such a nice human being above anything else, right? Oh, Kane Williamson.

Yeah.

Is that the New Zealand connection